Occupation:Samurai/Rokugani Ambassador
Marital Status: Single
Gender: Male
Age: Mid 30's (as the Great Race)
Height: 5'8"
Build: Lean
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Bald (Shaved Head)
Background
Kitsuki Kouri is an observant man and, like most Kitsuki, considerably more socially observant than most Dragon. It was this observant attitude that led him to great success during the Winter Court of 1168, making several friends among the Imperials and getting himself training with the famous Miya heralds. It was this great success that brought him to the attention of the Scorpion clan when asked by the Dragon who they should send to Medinaat al-Salaam as ambassador. Of the names put forward by the Scorpion, it was Kouri who found himself shipped off to a new land, filled with unknown dangers, unknown people, and unique experiences. The Kitsuki found a niche for himself with his training to observe all, and now in a society that accepted evidence for what it was worth, he found himself to be a rising star. But much of his fame came from being novel. He found more and more that his Rokugani mannerisms and beliefs became a hindrance that pushed him away from the Caliph and his court. They would call on him when they wished for amusement. So Kouri had a choice to make, betray his Rokugani training to better serve his home, or maintain his Rokugani manners and become useless to them here.
Kouri chose the former. He adopted a more native dress, began to speak Mekhem with more regularity, and began to adopt city customs. Though he’s maintained a Rokugani estate, and continues to carry his wakizashi, he looks far more like some of the Scorpion who have made this city home for the past few decades than a proper Rokugani. Just as his adjustment began, word came of the beginning of the Destroyer War, and Kouri was forced to sit, far from home, with little communication from the home he missed. He wondered for several months if Rokugan had not fallen the way the Ivory Kingdoms had and attended court rarely. When the war ended, both he and the Scorpion, who had sent him here to disappear forever, were surprised by how important to Rokugan he had suddenly become. He has gained the ear of the Caliph, who rather seems to enjoy the man’s stories, and uses that to help his country in whatever way he can while also doing his best to make certain the Rokugani who are newly arrived do not blunder through the city and worsen relations between the two great powers.
Kitsuki Kouri
Occupation:Samurai/Rokugani Ambassador
Marital Status: Single
Gender: Male
Age: Mid 30's (as the Great Race)
Height: 5'8"
Build: Lean
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Bald (Shaved Head)
Background
Kitsuki Kouri is an observant man and, like most Kitsuki, considerably more socially observant than most Dragon. It was this observant attitude that led him to great success during the Winter Court of 1168, making several friends among the Imperials and getting himself training with the famous Miya heralds. It was this great success that brought him to the attention of the Scorpion clan when asked by the Dragon who they should send to Medinaat al-Salaam as ambassador. Of the names put forward by the Scorpion, it was Kouri who found himself shipped off to a new land, filled with unknown dangers, unknown people, and unique experiences. The Kitsuki found a niche for himself with his training to observe all, and now in a society that accepted evidence for what it was worth, he found himself to be a rising star. But much of his fame came from being novel. He found more and more that his Rokugani mannerisms and beliefs became a hindrance that pushed him away from the Caliph and his court. They would call on him when they wished for amusement. So Kouri had a choice to make, betray his Rokugani training to better serve his home, or maintain his Rokugani manners and become useless to them here.
Kouri chose the former. He adopted a more native dress, began to speak Mekhem with more regularity, and began to adopt city customs. Though he’s maintained a Rokugani estate, and continues to carry his wakizashi, he looks far more like some of the Scorpion who have made this city home for the past few decades than a proper Rokugani. Just as his adjustment began, word came of the beginning of the Destroyer War, and Kouri was forced to sit, far from home, with little communication from the home he missed. He wondered for several months if Rokugan had not fallen the way the Ivory Kingdoms had and attended court rarely. When the war ended, both he and the Scorpion, who had sent him here to disappear forever, were surprised by how important to Rokugan he had suddenly become. He has gained the ear of the Caliph, who rather seems to enjoy the man’s stories, and uses that to help his country in whatever way he can while also doing his best to make certain the Rokugani who are newly arrived do not blunder through the city and worsen relations between the two great powers.